Save time creating functions to manage forgotten passwords in laravel for your Api's. This package will add a new key to your users model, along with two new routes that will handle the forgotten and reset password.

composer require appoly/api-password-helper

Add the new key to your users table.

php artisan migrate

The Users Model needs to be Notifiable as an email will be automatically sent to them

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

Two new routes will be created in your application

GET: /api/[email protected]

The Post route takes two form data parameters in the request key and password.

POST: /api/forgot-password

If your user model has $fillable ensure that password_helper_key is added to the list of fields that are allowed to be updated.

To edit the email you need to publish the config to your project using

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=api-password-helper-config --force

This will add the LaravelApiPasswordHelper file to your config folder, from there you can edit different sections of the email

If you are using SmartSchema to manage your models fillables then add SmartField to your model

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable, SmartField;